[Asterisk-Users] Parallel T1 cable?

[Steven Critchfield]

As ussual, check the Wiki.
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Failover+switches

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 03:46, el Flynn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was asked about how * could provide redundancy (on the actual PBX 
> Server portion, not the incoming lines), and my immediate thoughts were:
> 
> Incoming
> ========
> Basically somehow I'd split the incoming T1 line into two parallel lines 
> and connect them to two * servers.
> 
>             -----> * Server 1
>            |
> --- T1 ---
>            |
>             -----> * Server 2
> 
> Internal
> ========
> I've got a couple of analog phones that need to be hooked up to *, so 
> somehow I'd split each analog line into two parallel lines feeding into 
> the two * servers.
> 
> * Server 1 <-----
>                   |
>                    --- Analog phones
>                   |
> * Server 2 <-----
> 
> 
> ------------------
> 
> Server #2 would remain in standby mode, or running some sort of 
> heartbeat detect mechanism to determine if server #1 was still alive. 
> When #2 detects that #1 is down, #2 would start its * process.
> 
> Both servers would be identically configured in terms of 
> extensions.conf, sip.conf etc.
> 
> My concern is not whether I can create the two * servers -- but rather 
> whether this setup would work based on the splitting and creation of 
> parallel T1 and analog lines.
> 
> Does anyone have further insight?

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>